in the house era when news coverage consists of a punchy headline a five second sound bite and an easy solution. dellums says challenge the status quo expose double standards and debate the contradictions join me mad the hot sun for a new season of the show the frank luntz up front. but this time i'll just write. this is al jazeera. hello from doha everyone i'm come all sons of maria and this is the news from al jazeera extending an olive branch the president of south korea urges his north korean counterpart to enter into talks to try to deescalate the crisis also may in

moscow tells the u.n. the range of crisis is easing but many continue to flee to bangladesh to escape the violence. the protests in catalonia or spain central government steps up attempts to stop and independence referendum. china avails the world's fastest train many. at what cost. well over on the south korean president has sent a message of peace to north korea during his speech at the u.n. general assembly just about an hour ago he urged to enter into talks and then also praised the u.n. security council for imposing its latest set of sanctions on north korea here is a bit of what he had to say. we do not desire the collapse of north korea we will

not seek unification by absorption or artificial means if north korea makes a decision even now to stand on the right side of history we are ready to assist north korea together with the international community here is rosalynn jordan our u.n. correspondent who was listening to that speech with us an hour ago as we were saying rosalynn he he tread a fine line didn't he there was definite talk of of pathos and talking but at the same time saying sanctions and u.n. strength is very important here. that's right the south korean president really stressed the fact that even though the u.n. security council has passed two sets of sanctions against north korean persons and against north korean government entities in the past six weeks that there needs to be more compliance and more in force one of the sanctions not just by the u.n. security council which is going to moderate but member states of the united nations

which have the responsibility now to actually enforce them things such as enforcing the partial oil embargo on the country things such as not allowing new work permits to be issued to north korean workers whose incomes are basically garnished by the regime so that the compay for its nuclear weapons development program these sorts of issues have not been consistently enforced according to critics and according to member states and what we heard from president lula was that with full enforcement of these sanctions it's really hard to say that diplomacy is the option when people aren't taking full advantage of those tools that have now been put into place. just pause for a second i want to remind viewers of course of north korea's reaction to the u.s. president's speech at the u.n. the one where he of course threatened to totally destroy the country don't try to single out iran and north korea he called them rogue nations we just want have a quick listen to what the north korean foreign minister had to say if trump is

thinking about surprising us with the sound of a dog barking been he's clearly dreaming the sound of a dog barking i mean is this not to highlighting the problem is that you've got well obviously the united states through donald trump saying something very different and has tried to pace full root there and well can everyone get on the same page. well that is the big concern certainly it's not unusual to have world leaders throw insults at each other it's very different from actually threatening military action against a member state here at the u.n. that's usually done in other venues even then diplomats will cringe and policy advisers will cringe when they hear that sort of language but it we have to remember that the capital of seoul sits less than an hour's drive from the de-militarized zone or d.m.z.

with north korea so any talk of any possible military action is very frightening to people who live in seoul this is very much in their neighborhood and we're also talking about south korea which is separated from north korea and people have family on both sides of the border so again when there is this talk of potential military action this is not just political rhetoric for the people of south korea this has a direct impact on their lives on the lives of their relatives who live in the north so what you see is a real concerted effort especially here when the world's attention is focused on the united nations to push for all diplomatic actions including economic sanctions if that's what it takes in order to try to resolve this crisis rosalyn jordan at the u.n. thank you for that plenty more leaders speaking at the general assembly united on thursday what we're watching russia china jordan and bangladesh speeches will be

live here on al-jazeera we're going to preview some of that now with al-jazeera senior political analyst mo and bashara joining us from london who will what tell me what you're watching for from from that little list am i one. probably the chinese and the russians teaching the american president some ethics and some politeness and some statements ship about how to address the international community i think they're going to try to contrast their speeches and their vision of the world of international relations with that of the american president that in us far as i can see is the only leader that has spoken to the international community the last couple of days whereby there was a blatant threat and warning of such language about the use of force and to totally destroy another member state as rosen was just saying that i think we're going to hear

a lessons one or one in international relations from the russian foreign minister and the chinese foreign minister about why both in the uk and the question on of of iran and north korea among others it has to be diplomacy sanctions on the likes not more of a descent into war i had jordan on that list now and just for the fact that king abdullah apparently won't be giving the speech he's put it over to the crown prince not just with jordan these days i mean i think about crises going on in the region the gulf crisis iran also things as it got a role to play on the international stage. well certainly within the region they have tried to center themselves in the middle of things you know on the question of syria they've been working with the united states and the european community. and saudi arabia on the question of iraq they've also tried to be quite centered

working along with the americans but on the question of the for example the gulf crisis this sort of been cool towards qatar and even you know downgrading of their relations without setting relations so they have tried to maintain some sort of middle of the way. position for example being again close to israel and then at any other government despite the assassination if you will the killings that happened by the israeli embassy one at the same time maintaining good relations with with president abbas so all in all defied to be the west's or the united states. men if you were the regime in the region but also maintaining some kind of a middle ground because they simply cannot afford to have for example isis come down their way they cannot have more instability on their borders on the like my one hundred ninety three countries at the u.n.

does it risk this year becoming all about one man donald trump the fact that he was the second speaker he gave that speech and now so much of our analysis in our time has been thinking about well how will other countries react to that it's supposed to be the united nations we just keep talking about one god only. well look the fact that the russian and the chinese presidents decided not to attend that by itself says a lot i think they kind of sort of expect that but it's one trump was going to turn it into a circus of sort but be that as it may look come out i think it's there's much more at stake here and i think kofi annan you know had my attention today it when he was cited as saying or warning against little men in high places not understanding risk and i think what what now we're going to see is a truly multilateral. multi-polar world.

through in the united nations but also after this week where china russia the french even the british and others are going to say to america look unit can no longer dictate the questions of war and peace you can no longer after the laterally not on north korea not on iran and that if you do act for example unilaterally on iran and iran deal we will not respect that and if you do push and you forward and you any further on the question of north korea and the use of violence we will not accept that and i think we've heard a bit of that from the south korean earlier so all in all i think what we have to look at beyond the rhetoric and of a bride though. is just how the multipolar world is going to come through with russia china and europe taking their place on the international stage now and always a pleasure thank you for joining us. two

other news in me in my second vice president has been trying to reassure the international community that the situation in rakhine state is improving henry when they are told the u.n. general assembly there has been no violence there since early this month but as we know more than four hundred twenty thousand muslim ranger have sought sanctuary in bangladesh since a military crackdown began late last month many people still trapped on that border yes no denying that this is a problem significant. i'm happy to inform you that i don't see tourism has improved no i'm classes have been reported since september accordingly we are confident. the numbers. chorusing buying their debts remain. right we would need to find the reason for these exodus why does the little known is that great journey

of. this site are to remain here really. well ahead of me and governments the nobel peace laureate aung sang suu kyi is of course been criticized for ignoring the plight of the ranger community however she has repeated the government's stance that the military crackdown in rakhine state is against groups and not civilians whatever we do we should have we must try to avoid collateral damage and all. and any action that would hurt innocent civilians it is very difficult to counter terrorism because terrorism by its nature means that some of their members are in bed in the ordinary population and we. and distinguish the one from the other is that important we don't want to hurt those who are innocent but at the same time we have to make sure that terrorists are not on our to carry on that they're

committing more often jonah how who is in congress as bizarre in bangladesh the other border with me and. while these people are not called stateless for nothing the range of muslims here in bangladesh one suspects the government recognizes its obligations under international refugee and humanitarian law to accept them into the country it can't turn them back it can't stop them from coming in but it does want them to go back as soon as possible whereas on the other side of the border in myanmar the thinking is officially or otherwise that the originated here in what was then east bengal two hundred years ago under british rule when they went across the border to work for the british and that their place now is here in martin bangladesh so the government's priority at the moment may be to meet the immediate humanitarian needs of the refugees in bangladesh but what it really wants is to ensure that they go back to talk to you here is that they are a security threat but in their desperation they are vulnerable to recruitment by

armed groups you hear that they are a blight on the economy of this country and this seaside area the call is for the international community to do more to pressure the government in myanmar to take them back and that is a call that is likely to be heard again from prime minister sheikh hasina when she addresses the general assembly in the coming hours but this crisis has also taken on a different dimension hindu members of the range of minority say they're being targeted as well i was there as nicholas ports now from clip of a long along the bangladeshi border with me and i really think of religious continue to burn. people make their escape by boat or flee through forests any way they can it is a journey to him during the nicobar and her friend probably less she'll were forced to take. masked men shot dead fifteen year lawmakers husband in their home she's seven months pregnant the teenagers were then forced to watch relatives being raped

shot and stabbed their allies were spared. they dug three holes one to dump the bodies of women the other fit children and a third one for the men they kill the holes are overflowing that's where i lost my husband's body. it went to me and my government refers to as a clearing operation it appears no rethink whether muslim or hindu are safe the me and my government restricts journalists from visiting ring of villages in red kind state so telling their stories is difficult five hundred hindu families have fled across the border to bangladesh most have made this makeshift camp their home. the last time bangladesh experienced such a large scale movement of people we're hearing it's a war of independence in one thousand nine hundred ninety one there are more than four hundred thousand ranges that made this camp their home and they keep coming there as many people here as they are living in liverpool in the u.k.

or atlanta in the united states and most of them are young women and children. a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding at the u.n. assembly general condemnation from the international community was swift but help is trickling in slowly bangladeshi government leaders are taking the lead. hundred sixty. five hundred or seven hundred thousand. and. the people. who are but they're. still shaken. has found refuge in a small hindu community in bangladesh. as she stares into the eyes of the hindu goddess of destruction she wonders whether the cycle of violence will stop who will care for her unborn child and will she ever go back home nicholas hawke al-jazeera

on the border between me and my in bangladesh is what's coming up for you on this news hour show of support for yemen's hutu rebels on the third anniversary of their takeover of the capital sanaa the un urged to investigate thousands of sexual abuse and exploitation claims against its own peacekeepers and international cycling has a new president sanity to tell you who he is and what he's all about a little bit later. we're looking at mexico now where three days of mourning have been declared at least two hundred thirty people having died in the worst earthquake to hit the country in thirty he is now only on thursday rescuers did pull a survivor from the rubble at one of the collapsed buildings mexico city the capital has been hit pretty hard in the search for survivors goes on more than thirty six hours after that magnitude seven point one quake here in mexico city

tell us about what's going on right behind you there heidi. the ball is all about time here and everyone to be behind me is feeling the sense of urgency that's growing as you said nelson almost two days since the earthquake hit and behind me there is an office building six stories tall that collapsed and two hundred people were inside at the time many did evacuated but the serious some forty still remain trapped family members for those loved ones have gathered here they maintain their vigil now over the second night now into the second day they are hoping that rescue workers will continue this this labor of digging through the rubble using their hands and small shovels in hopes of reaching those loved ones in fact some tense moments a confrontation between those families and the rescuers here there has been a debate about whether to use the heavy machinery that you may also see behind me

for the families fear that that may just cause further collapse further endangering what hope they have of of rescuing their loved ones and just how do you know idea kemal of how many of the sites are found in mexico city just another block to my right is an apartment building also six stories tall that collapsed as well there are still fears of some thirty people trapped inside i just spoke with an engineer who left that site and he said that dogs did detect signs of human life but that they do not have the thermal imaging equipment that they need for more and more of this protein to occur and then of course you still remember there is the school that is quoted some in where we've seen those heart breaking images of small bodies being carried out in body bags as there was one girl whose fingers were found wiggling yesterday morning she still has not been rescued rescuers hoping that

she's still alive at the moment but with the rains that fell overnight there has been some sad sack some delays in fact a part of that you will virtually that haven't. sort of continues to collapse this morning here that that may have happened on top of more people who are still alive and hampering rescue efforts tomorrow i think i lost my way of hearing you saw throw back to you all right good stuff how did your town stories in mexico city. the people have gathered outside the supreme court in spain along your region in a show of support for next month's independence referendum protesting against the arrest of the periphery and officials who were detained after police raided regional government offices. in i mean every time we come to you call doesn't matter what behind you the support is not waning. absolutely no what is happening is that. people in this area are starting to finish more and more

people are coming for about the last six or seven hours there are already been thousands of pro independence supporters gathered outside the supremes many more now on today's protest really started by yesterday. when the civil police by central government went into the offices of the catalonian regional government and started arresting some of the officials and some of the stocks in those offices and so did the crowds have turned down those fourteen detainees should be released now some of them were released in fact overnight others are appealing their detention saying that they were arrested illegally but the spanish prosecutors have indicated that they will go ahead and. prosecute those who were detained the charges that include facilitating an organizing what they call an illegal referendum but certainly the people on the street making their response

very clear they are turning out and saying that they will go to the polls on october the first to try and. break away from the rest of spain and the actual polling system i mean the organizers of the the referendum are very just pressing on able to just press on and prepare because it's a big thing to prepare for. it has been very difficult because. they confiscated ten million. forty five thousand registered letters that were being sent to facials and to electoral officials. hunting for the ballot boxes themselves and it has been very difficult. to try and organize the first but people here say that doesn't matter they're

saying that even if we have to print the ballot papers out on the printer at home and drop them in a bucket we will do and they're in of course that because passions now are riding very high it is very difficult to see how the catalonians will take no for an all simply the cancellation of this referendum as the central. fascinating stuff. for us. demonstrations are being held in france against proposed changes to labor laws the rallies have been organized by the country's largest trade unions president wants to make it easier for small and medium sized businesses to hire and fire employees the unions say those changes would simply you rode with his rights. the leader of the far right to french national front to rebuild the party after its deputy quit now in the pen says the party will continue despite the last of. it quits on thursday over policy differences he pushed for

a hard line against the european union during this year's presidential election penned says she will continue campaigning against the e.u. . or with more now from paris. well it's not been a good year for marine le pen five months ago she had a good childs of winning the presidential election but she lost and now the cracks are really starting to show in a national front party now there's always been a lot of infighting in the party but that's all become a lot more public since the resignation of le pen's right hand man. that was something of a golden boy for the national front he was tossed with dragging the party into the mainstream making it seem more acceptable he tried to clean clean up its extreme image he tried to shift the focus away from issues like immigration and more on things like sovereignty and protectionism but one of the pen lost the election many in the party turned around and said it was his fault that he simply had the wrong strategy and that he had alienated the base supporters what will happen to the

national front now remains to be seen by many though all wondering whether or not it will actually slide back to its more hall adroit origins plenty more news coming up for you on this news hour people in the philippines marking a chapter of the country's history. human rights violations happening today heritage in ruins after years of conflict syrians are trying to preserve their past but also find out traditional martial arts a fairing in the face of competition from m.m.a. mixed martial arts and spent some of that light. welcome back as we take a look at weather conditions across the levant and western nations all looking dry and fine temperatures the wrong side of forty degrees still for q eight city and

indeed head on through into saturday rise event in forty three degrees elsewhere it's looking fine around the caspian sea further towards the west we've got to find conditions around the eastern side of the mediterranean with beirut there coming in with temperatures in the high twenty's here in the arabian peninsula on the western side the potential it's a dry heat with forty one from mecca and medina but on the eastern side the humidity is still pretty high and temperatures close to forty degrees for doha and i would be in the state to stay that way through the remainder of the weekend as we head across into southern portions of africa the weather here is also draw and find see very little way of significant cloud showing up on the satellite imagery so look at the forecast southerly breeze is keeping temperatures down to just sixteen in cape town but otherwise johannesburg twenty seven zambians about buy or plenty of sunshine and not a great deal of change heading on through into stuff there was a head up into central parts of africa here it's looking pretty lively shower wise where crosses central african republic and towards cameroon and as far south as

kabban leaders all of them see some heavy showers the highs of twenty eight sharers in bamako mali with highs here of thirty one. in the next episode of science in a golden age exploring the contributions made by scholars join the medieval islamic period in the field of medicine. science tend to be a good subject to bring different people from all over the world together with this such like a magical and the more i learn about the more i respect science in a golden age with professor jim at this time on a. russian filmmaker andre explores how putin's russia impacts the very values of the nation the russians are famous for their cultural legacy but can traditional and conservative be the source of stagnation and authoritarian rule why

this is the assimilated by the police. ukraine says homosexuality the significance of him to the russian elite is that he's like a fake you who controls the cobra in such a putin's russia at this time on al-jazeera. you know what the news are from al-jazeera and these are the top stories the south korean president moon j in a sent a message of peace to north korea telling the u.n. general assembly he doesn't want pyongyang to collapse it's called for dialogue to end its nuclear program mainmast second vice president has also been speaking at the u.n. and said that the violence in rakhine state is actually easing up teams on the

ground say that's not the case more than four hundred twenty thousand ranger referred to bangladesh since a military crackdown began last month. and three days of mourning have been declared in mexico where at least two hundred thirty people have been killed in the worst earthquake to hit the country in thirty years if he was pulled one survivor from the rubble after being trapped for more than thirty six hours. the palestinian president mahmoud abbas says he is optimistic about the u.s. president's peace plan for the middle east made those comments of course during his address to the un general assembly in which he accused israel of jeopardizing a two state solution by building more illegal settlements in palestinian areas and israel hit back saying about his speech spread false hoods and encouraged hate. despite all international efforts israel continues to breach its commitments and obstruct if it's by continuing to build settlements everywhere everywhere there is

no place left for the state of palestine and this is not acceptable for us all for you you have the responsibility israel also rejects the two state solution and this poses a real threat to both peoples the israelis and palestinians alike. the palestinian group hamas which has been a rival to president abbas reacted by saying about the speech bears the failure of the settlement project negotiations with israel hamas also said it was unfortunate the speech didn't defend the resistance of the palestinian people as an inherent right under occupation and i was confident it could work with the palestinian authority however to continue the process of reconciliation earlier this week egypt's president sisi called on the palestinians and israelis to seize the opportunity for peace. for the cd i tell the palestinian people it's extremely important to unite behind the goal and to overcome differences and seize opportunities and to be ready to accept coexistence with the others the israelis

and achieve stability and security for all and i say and i direct my call to the israeli people we have an excellent experience in egypt in peace with you for more than forty years we can repeat this once again peace and security of israelis together with peace and security of the palestinians we heard from ben smith earlier a journalist and author on the palestinian israeli conflict who said despite the details of the trump peace deal being unclear palestinian officials have historically supported the u.s. . the problem goes back before trump and that's how we've got to where we are today in terms of. the palestinian strategy for a long time while this idea has been that if you please watch washington if you're close with washington with whoever's in the white house that that will produce pressure on israel to make concessions and to earn your keep ation and so forth that hasn't worked to date and it's certainly not working with

a man like donald trump in the white house in donald trump's been there for nine months now also in office he hasn't once even verbally committed to the two state solution framework that is that has shaped the the international peace process to date and palestinian officials i think more of desperation than anything else are hoping that trump can make quote unquote that ultimate deal but as one senior palestinian official close to a bus said recently they don't actually know what the quote final destination is that trumps headed towards i mean potentially trump and his team don't even know that yet either yet despite the fact that that angle is and isn't known from the palestinian side in terms of what what troubles going for they they feel like they have to stick with it regardless and out of a lack of a desire to pursue other strategies and because this has been this is been the way of doing things for so long that it's i think they can't see beyond that now an

issue on the agenda or at the u.n. this week has been the alleged abuse by u.n. peacekeepers there have been at least two thousand cases of sexual abuse or exploitation by u.n. peacekeepers in the last twelve years according to recent investigations by the associated press many of those happened in the democratic republic of congo advocacy groups saying not enough is being done about it is caroline malone of course. some of the world's most vulnerable men women and children have been raped trafficked and exploited by un peacekeepers who were supposed to be protecting them they've been more than five hundred locations of sexual exploitation or abuse reported in un missions globally since two thousand and ten and since two thousand and fourteen in many cases have been reported in the central african republic the code blue campaign and then go seeking accountability for the abuses says it's found the u.n. had mishandled at least fourteen of those cases in the country including many where the victims were not even interviewed as part of an investigation then there was

the child sex trafficking ring set up by shoreline can u.n. peacekeepers in haiti between two thousand and four and two thousand and seven the un can look into whether stuff a breach rules but has no jurisdiction over criminal offenses more than one hundred of those sri lankan soldiers were sent home but there's no record of any of them being prosecuted or going to jail this week at un headquarters the sri lankan president was among fifty seven people who've joined a new circle of leadership against sex abuse within the un in june a decision was made under pressure from the us to cut un funding by six hundred million dollars and to close twelve missions the secretary general antonio terrace has announced a new push against abuse to root out the problem you have dealing with the problem of the un as a whole that we want to. wait because it is something that isn't acceptable for our organization and we also cannot allow the unspeakable acts of the few to work of

dollars of men and women well paul developers of united nations charter of great personal risk and certainly five but in every allegation of abuse there's a person who suffers there are two hundred nine cases involving one hundred seventeen children who are suspected of being abused by human peacekeepers over the last two years more than one harf of those cases are not yet resolved. kenya's president kenyatta has called the supreme court's decision to cancel his win in last month's election a coup he criticized the judge's ruling that it was misconduct by the electoral commission while the opposition leader reiner agenda says those behind the alleged manipulation should be prosecuted that new elections set down for october the twenty sixth and the danger is called the alleged manipulation and injustice and he told us here at al-jazeera it was right for the supreme court to void the result. the god did. the right thing because i know that i did

not lose elections i know the one deliberations and the results were just manipulated so this is what we call an injustice and. did the right thing. in the evidence we played before us anally played those illusions we were talking about the south korean president of the un at the top of this news he has just in the last few minutes began a bilateral meeting with the u.s. president donald trump it's on going live but we're going to take you and show you just moments ago what was said at the start of that meeting. into a very early age to be a. country. we need to run and they actually could make you know anyway a lot of different ways you are on

a very friendly basis for trade agreements. that for much more important frankly trade. bank of our relationship. to. be constantly meeting with. prime minister to. try to meeting so we will be but it's going to rush into a lot of different ways state your. state here and there you go what we're custom to hearing from don trump as he keeps his cards pretty close to his chest on these sorts of things waiting to hear what comes out of perhaps that bilateral meeting between the president when jay in and president trump. let's take you back to another one of our top stories the three days of mourning declared in mexico where of course at least two hundred thirty people have been killed in the worst earthquake to hit the country in thirty years we're going to go to. fisher is

there a town pretty much flattened by the earthquake i understand. we've had real problems here a number of buildings have been destroyed in the air quit where we are now is a sports field on the edge of the town this is normally where you come to play football or you go for a swim but it's been turned into a temporary camp for about two hundred fifty families know here average about four person per family that's a thousand people that have been here over the last twenty four thirty six hours there's a thousand soldiers here as well they're providing security but they're also providing basic infrastructure the trying to get water in as well and food what you're hearing behind me now is a meeting that is going on telling people how they can organize make sure that people have got their own space how they can help other families that haven't quite made it to their camp yet and also the fact that they're expecting the in quotes around two hundred fifty more families so this camp is going to double in size probably in the next twenty four hours or so as people go back to their homes

remember a lot of them left because when the earthquake struck they're going back and no finding that they simply can't go back to their property or it has been destroyed it's just lying there in rubble so they're expecting to double the size of this camp in the next twenty four forty eight hours we don't know how long this camp is going to be here but the army's attitude seems to be it will be here as long as people need it some people have set out their own little tents but on the whole the army are providing big tents mattresses bedding so that people have somewhere to sleep and as you can see behind me they've also set up a temporary canteen where people are grabbing some food today and for some families this might be the first they've eaten a whole meal in more than twenty four hours or so certainly since the earthquake struck how would you describe the resilience of the people there allan i can't begin to imagine what it's like for them you're seeing it tell us about it. well in a way people of mexico nor that they will suffer earthquakes they've had plenty of

them including the big one thirty two years ago and they know this happens what is incredible i think and i've seen this in a couple of places but here really struck me how the community has rallied together people talk about mexico being a divided society you know political politically that is polarization and we see that many places around the world but everything's forgotten everything's pushed aside and it's what do you need how can i help you what can i do for you that is why in mexico city we saw people who were showing up with spades and pickaxes and some people go by mino with speeds and pickaxes to see right what can we do to help where can we move rubble what do we need to do to get to people who may be trapped and then others are just saying right i can cook give me things and i will i will make things for people here so they can eat and there's even. clichy. had to shame we lost alan fischer there in the middle of that will try to find out

certainly i'll try to find out what he was saying. as he got cut off there these are the live pictures we've been looking at there from mexico city as those search and rescue efforts go on just an extraordinary sight after that seven point one magnitude earthquake in mexico and from one fortunately natural disaster to another this is hurricane maria now bringing high winds and rough seas to the dominican republic as it passed offshore of the northeast coast causing flooding and wind damage as it's passing close to the island about four thousand tourists in the county area on the eastern tip of the dominican republic have been moved to hotels in santo domingo because of the storm. here's gabriel is on the now in punta cana how you doing. it was quite a night here on the exterior of the dominican republic of hurricane rita hit and it's very hard to say good news is for the most part it is moving away right now there is still a lot of windows you can probably see for me right now but for the most part

hurricane irene is moving away at this hour from the dominican republic like in the middle of the night we saw extensive rain we saw winds of up to one hundred seventy five kilometers per hour here for all intents and purposes this was a city that was completely shut down overnight still it's very quiet here there is some moderate damage with trees down and some minor buildings damage in town but for the most part the dominican republic we're hearing from the tourism ministry and from other officials has come out of this pretty well overall where the cherokee berea go from here it's now headed to. over the atlantic and it will be going to the turks and take those can probably talking over the bahamas well the people of the dominican republic so clearly starting to wake up and figure out how they're going to start cleaning up the mess that there is here that is still here but it's still too early of course in. puerto rico that says chris that it's still

very very much in the same desperate situation there with howard completely out of the entire region that and one other in the nation to think about gabrielle dominique as opposed to the dominican republic which i mean really bore the brunt of maria other in the wake any update on that. the prime minister of germany is supposed to be speaking here in the next half hour or so this is important because this is the first time we're going to hear from him to get a better assessment on what's going on in. dominica right now that was six more than three days ago by the eye of hurricane maria and the situation as far as we can tell very bad there no cell phone service no internet connection there the water supply has gone out even some of the crew rations get to collect inflecting before the hurricane hit whole we're told is those washed away once maria hits. to

airports on the island both are completely shut down no sort of rescue personnel have been able to even reach them in a closet now and that's why it's going to be important this six hear from the prime minister who's on a neighboring island again it will be the first time he's able to address really the world. people what's going on there we're actually trying to reach him in a cup on wednesday but we simply couldn't get there all the plane trip flights were canceled all the surrounding islands because of hurricane maria but we're hearing that as many as eighty percent of the buildings on that island nation are destroyed but it's not about the buildings with people that's why we want to get there i get a better sense of how the people there are coping after this story for. thanks carol stay safe in the condo. more than ten thousand people have protested in the philippines on what is the forty fifth anniversary of the declaration of martial

law this was back in one hundred seventy two the late ferdinand marcos impose martial law for eight years signing the threat of communism a group calling itself a movement against tyranny use the anniversary to highlight rights violations under the current president rodriguez deter take jamila island duggan has more now from manila. survivors of the martial law there are a lot of. former president bush. rule president. martial law was imposed only one thousand nine hundred eighty six. people more than three thousand people died. however now. more than a year ago more than thirty thousand people have been killed. and so protesters here asking the president of.

the national and the judiciary as a response over the last few weeks president. thousands of people are holding a rally in yemen's capital sanaa a protest marking the day the hurt the rebels marched into the city and took power three years on at least ten thousand people have been killed and the destruction and violence just continues across the country. has this report. it's show force by the houthi is in sun. three years after they took over the capital the political and military influence continues to rise the shihad rebels control of the area that's wretch's from some in the more along the border with saudi arabia to in the song. despite

a military campaign by saudi arabia and its allies the houthi still hold ground. we have achieved a lot since we took control we brought unity and we managed to confront aggression we improved our military capabilities and our neighbors are afraid of our missiles with. the hope these are backed by iran and former president. who still controls elite units of the army but the alliance with. the two sides how far to each other recently the whole thing is accused of colluding with the saudis accusations dismissed by the former president who claims the whole thing is for backtracking on an agreement to share power so the war in yemen shows no signs of letting it defiant host the leader of the american who he told yemenis to rally behind his group against saudi arabia and the united arab

emirates. you know. as we said the iraqis are the front for the americans and today they're stealing yemen's natural gas despite the suffering of the yemeni people and both santa and people are suffering from issues related to both natural gas and petrol either not being able to find it or not being able to benefit from its wealth in all of this the yemeni people are not the ones who benefit. these are fighters backed by saudi arabia any of the capital they face tough resistance from pro who theater. as the fighting continues so does the humanitarian crisis. the u.n. says more than ten thousand people have been killed millions have no access to food medicine and water. and health agencies described the country's. as the worst ever recorded. a situation in many. even get worse.

with jacked international calls to seek a political settlement. as we discussed yemen here is. from them and pressing the united nations general assembly. to dissuade them from the path of violence and terrorism that they have chosen. they are implementing. under the leadership. kingdom of saudi arabia. granted.

and responded to. and stood by mr president. the topic under which this session is being held. is it represents what we have been searching for in the search. leadership. this is what we have sought to gauge the negotiations that engine there in geneva. which is sustainable peace. fair and strong cannot rely that lays the foundation for state guarantees for all its citizens. and peace and security and prevents violence the peace that grants the state alone. for use of on the use of force.

and prevents armed militias in the country. that is based on. consumption consensual documents that our people have agreed upon and that have received the international regional support. and how they don't like mr president. i would like to hear to clarify extremely important point that our problem in yemen is not a political difference it can be managed around negotiation tables of a long despite our efforts and our compromises. in this purpose. does not even a. commonly known. goes beyond those two difference on. philosophies and ideologies and

a common set of values in fact we are facing religious sects that are extremist and i believe that god has granted them superiority and ethnic superiority and our right to rule. of. alliances and with. force is seeking retaliation. and that have gone against all human values and based on this the cool of the seas and saw that we are addressing what has went beyond any traditional military could at times that preserve the state and its institutions. these militias that are destroying all the state institutions and the army and security forces have been replaced by. committees and militias that are serving one hundred

five percent only of their same ethnicity and much like. including economic institutions. as. all our resources are in. their entirety and even salary have seized for almost a year in. the. private sector has disappeared and now we have a new class of immersion and some that have come at the expense of our national interest they have even school curricula with extremist curricula. that give foundation to sectarian strife. and on top of all of this these militias receive full support politically and militarily and in.

my financing from iran. that has. been determined to stabilize our region. and. peace can only be. if this seizes to interfere in our affairs and through creating tension. and faking conflicts and. stoking feelings of hatred and violence. and control of these expansionist aspirations of iran. you may remember that when i stood before you. five years ago speaking. of the measures we have taken that we will take on the path of the peaceful

political transition. in yemen. in the context of these. yemen's president robert months so. the using the international stage there at the general assembly to remind the world about what is often described as a forgotten war obviously describes so much of the suffering that's going on in yemen but said it cannot alone be a managed around the negotiating tables because it goes beyond war he talks about philosophies ideologies issues of ethnic superiority all things which have led to sectarian strife making this speech today on the third anniversary of the who can is taking over yemen's capital sana. funny china has unveiled the world's fastest bullet train it's called the food it will travel at up to three hundred fifty kilometers an hour and shave thirty minutes off the journey from beijing to shanghai there are concerns about the cost of china's high speed rail ambitions adrian brown looks at that. china's high speed rail ways are

a potent symbol of its economy today the network has more than twenty thousand kilometers of track the largest in the world and it's all happened in less than a decade the link between beijing and shanghai is one of the busiest experts say the new service is about more than just the lure of speed or hunger for. the purpose of raising the speed is merely symbolic that trying to run at the speed of three hundred fifty kilometers an hour the fastest in the world this implies the stress of chinese twenty. foot high speed trains are expensive to operate one international think tank estimates that it cost ninety percent more to build lines for trains that reach three hundred fifty kilometers an hour than four ones that allow a speed of two hundred fifty but china's government is in a hurry to build more both in china and abroad than. nobody

predicted that the high speed rail between beijing and shanghai would be profitable when it was built but after a seven eight year development it gains so it can work in the west regions as well after. just six years ago there were questions over the future of the network after a high speed rail crash caused by a signalling failure killed forty people yet today train travel offers what flying in china simply doesn't and reliability in recent years flying in china has become characterized by lengthy delays and cancellations in two thousand and sixteen a third of all flights failed to leave on time it's been a year for trumpeting china's technological achievements in may the country's first domestically manufactured wide body jet made its maiden flight. a few weeks before

that its homemade aircraft carrier slipped into the sea for the first time and now once more china holds the title for the world's fastest passenger train adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. and that's it from the team here and. from london shortly with more news and the latest from the u.n. general assembly. i just want to make sure all of our audience is on the same page where they're online and want to pollute the u.s. citizens here you know what pollutes people of iraq by one and the same or if you

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